Summary: According to a new study, older people who engage in sexual activity on a frequent basis scored higher on tests that reflect cognitive abilities.Source: Coventry University.

More frequent sexual activity has been linked to improved brain function in older adults, according to a study by the universities of Coventry and Oxford.

Researchers found that people who engaged in more regular sexual activity scored higher on tests that measured their verbal fluency and their ability to visually perceive objects and the spaces between them.

The study, published today in The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences, involved 73 people aged between 50 and 83.

Participants filled in a questionnaire on how often, on average, they had engaged in sexual activity over the past 12 months – whether that was never, monthly or weekly – as well as answering questions about their general health and lifestyle.

The 28 men and 45 women also took part in a standardised test, which is typically used to measure different patterns of brain function in older adults, focussing on attention, memory, fluency, language and visuospatial ability.

This included verbal fluency tests in which participants had 60 seconds to name as many animals as possible, and then to say as many words beginning with F as they could – tests which reflect higher cognitive abilities.

They also took part in tests to determine their visuospatial ability which included copying a complex design and drawing a clock face from memory.

It was these two sets of tests where participants who engaged in weekly sexual activity scored the most highly, with the verbal fluency tests showing the strongest effect.

The results suggested that frequency of sexual activity was not linked to attention, memory or language. In these tests, the participants performed just as well regardless of whether they reported weekly, monthly or no sexual activity.

This study expanded on previous research from 2016, which found that older adults who were sexually active scored higher on cognitive tests than those who were not sexually active.

But this time the research looked more specifically at the impact of the frequency of sexual activity (i.e. does it make a difference how often you engage in sexual activity) and also used a broader range of tests to investigate different areas of cognitive function.

The academics say further research could look at how biological elements, such as dopamine and oxytocin, could influence the relationship between sexual activity and brain function to give a fuller explanation of their findings.

It was these two sets of tests where participants who engaged in weekly sexual activity scored the most highly, with the verbal fluency tests showing the strongest effect. NeuroscienceNews.com image is in the public domain.

Lead researcher Dr Hayley Wright, from Coventry University’s Centre for Research in Psychology, Behaviour and Achievement, said:

“We can only speculate whether this is driven by social or physical elements – but an area we would like to research further is the biological mechanisms that may influence this.

“Every time we do another piece of research we are getting a little bit closer to understanding why this association exists at all, what the underlying mechanisms are, and whether there is a ‘cause and effect’ relationship between sexual activity and cognitive function in older people.

“People don’t like to think that older people have sex – but we need to challenge this conception at a societal level and look at what impact sexual activity can have on those aged 50 and over, beyond the known effects on sexual health and general wellbeing.”

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Source:Coventry UniversityImage Source: NeuroscienceNews.com image is in the public domain.Original Research: Full open access research for “Frequent sexual activity predicts specific cognitive abilities in older adults” by Hayley Wright, Rebecca A. Jenks, and Nele Demeyere in The Journals of Gerontology, Series B. Published online June 21 2017 doi:10.1093/geronb/gbx065

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omnipulse Fringe August 21, 2017 9 Minutes
This is a description of the archontic deception.
The truth is simultaneously the most shocking nature of reality as well as the most invigorating and liberating.

The deception is so deep that the mere rape, murder or oppression of a single individual or group cannot even begin to initiate one towards the severity of what has been done.
A plan was designed, technology and spiritual knowledge aligned and implemented to entrap an entire species, an entire civilization and many others, within a false reality that would continue to repeat the same experiences over and over until the very observational essence of the spiritual force within was either extinguished or obscured beyond the point of recognition.
This is the archontic deception. The DNA contains the memories of each experience of that form. There are multiple fractures of the base reality which was separated through a device that splits the spiritual essence into a multi-layer stream and then fragments that soul-stream into multiple separate pieces that are seemingly disconnected. From the conscious perspective, they are separate but from the unconscious perspective all the memories and experiences all center around the same source, the DNA of the individual.

What we call the various parallels and separate streams of experience, personalities created individually for each reality are the result of the implementation of a device and spiritual mind control system that fractures the whole consciousness and renders the individual only capable of remembering the immediately proximal temporal information.

Bleed-throughs occur and these are considered ‘glitches’ in one’s memory or the continuity of the conscious experience. Behind the scenes these seemingly continuous realities are spliced together from a multitude of segments that are discontinuous from a linear perspective but are simultaneous and cyclic if viewed together. The conscious mind is limited so as to only be able to focus on a limited number of data points simultaneously. Some say the number is 3 or 4 others say 7 to 9.

These glitches in memory, the occurrence of impossible coincidences, the awareness of what is to come before it happens (“reverse memory”) and other effects are clues that the surface level, forward facing, temporal and spatial reality is closer to a projection or a simulation of the true situation rather than the whole observation. The more “whole” situation contains information moving both forwards and backwards through time and the information that is present in this reality-stream is simultaneously present in another stream. If “you” could see the entirety of “you” you would see a multi-dimensional being who is experiencing multiple events simultaneously in a way which synchronizes the physical, external layer with an internal layer that organizes across multiple planes of meaning.

The ‘meaning’ is the progression of self-awareness that increases the more these fragmented realities are re-unified. The more we follow the pseudo-identity of the ego that follies and focuses on the temporary and the illusory then the less the self-awareness develops to reunify the whole. This is the trick of the demiurge, or the fallen. The genetic signature of each individual contains a purity the comes forth from the beginning of engagement which is also the ‘fall’ from a higher level where disease and disorder did not exist in the same way.

As a result of this whole system, we have a limited set of events and opportunities to awaken, if we pass these opportunities then, as a species, the genetic signature will become too distorted to continue to reflect the true nature of the spiritual essence that was brought into forgetfulness. If that occurs, then life as we know it no longer exists or there is a severing of the connection to the pure state from this society. Thus, we have a system-wide collapse into ego and materialism and the end result of that is to distort the mind but to also distort the genetics. If the genetics are distorted then the connection of one individual to their past memories, their ancestors and the soul fragments in alternate realities becomes less accessible. The purity of the genetic code is what enables a transference of light and thus information, memories and intentions between the layers.

This is the continuous link to the larger self however this has also been used to disrupt the return to wholeness and self-awareness. The DNA can be replicated and harmonically rendered through supercomputer systems so as to make a holographic copy that is ‘real enough’ to trick the universe into thinking there’s now two people. What happens to the one DNA replicant then is transferred over to the human through sympathetic resonance and false memories or traumatic experiences can be inserted into one’s field. These are perceptual overlays and do not influence the system permanently unless one allows the inserts the power to do that. The true self is always more powerful than the secondaries and this is because the true self occurs both forwards and backwards in time meaning that the mind can heal both in the past, from the future and in the present.

There are technologies that seek to replicate this capacity to interact interdimensionally but the true self is still more capable because of the infinitely close proximity to the center of being rather than being a device creating an artificial center through a dimensional zero-point that is outside of the being.

So the deception was so great, it was to take the DNA of an entire species, by interacting with the progenitors of each bloodline, and mix genetic inserts into the species so as to create altered personalities that then interact to generate altered timelines and alternate realities. The series of realities occurs on a spectrum. They created a ‘hell’ reality at the ‘bottom’ in which there is only continuous war and opposition.

Then there is a gradient of reflections moving upward leading to a ‘false-awakening’ reality which is a holographically rendered experience within a temporal dilation field that is essentially an inserted experience. These are programmed in between what is called the ‘death’ experience which is also designed by this system. The ‘death’ can only occur through the creation of ‘artificial life’ and this is through the generation of linear time through splicing and separating the realities into consciously discontinuous yet simultaneously synchronized alternate realities.

In other words, if you had the full power level that your DNA enables and could access the actual stream of knowledge, change and stillness that is the universe, then you could continuously live moving from reality to reality and living for thousands of years in each one. The only reason there is what seems to be a disconnect between everything now is because of the use of advanced technology that is applied when souls are literally kidnapped and shocked with a high energy discharge. This is handled as part of a military faction who’s goal it is to contain the human essence within a false reality of refracted light and dimensional mirrors that mimic and siphon energy from the soul level and then spirit